Category :Miss Brogan’s Blog

The BBC are giving away FREE Blue Peter badges to children aged between 6 and 15! The badge allows you to gain free entry to over 200 attractions across the UK including Museums and Zoos.

Browse the badges available on the Blue Peter website and follow the instructions of how to apply… it may be that your child needs to send in a poem, a letter or rhyme etc.
Great idea to keep the young ones occupied!

(It’s also worth checking out the 200 attractions on the website as there’s places we haven’t heard of that look fab! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️)

The amazing Leicester Patron of Reading, Steve Skidmore, has launched his very own story writing competition especially for Off School!

Take your mind into an Imaginary world using the hints and tips Steve has put together in the series of four videos below containing great advice and ideas and watch Steve’s competition launch video with all the competition details you’ll need. There are great prizes to be won for each Key Stage (KS): KS1, Lower KS2, Upper KS2 and KS3!

Prizes include a signed book AND the opportunity to have your story read on video by Steve himself!

Ready to take the challenge? Head to the Competition Zone on offschool.org.uk to enter! Your child’s entry can be submitted via the ‘Submit your Entry’ button at the bottom of the ‘Current Competition’ page. Either upload an electronic file of your story OR a photographed image of a handwritten story (ensuring that we can read this clearly).

https://shortaudition.com/Don-t-Unleash-The-Beast
Calling all 10-12 year olds! Mrs Ogle’s friend is creating a game for a new TV show on CITV and he needs 10-12 year olds to be a part of it! If you think you’ve got what it takes to be a problem solver on TV then please click the above link to apply.

As we continue to teach a lot of our children online through either ‘Evidence Me’ or ‘Google Classroom’ we would like to extend our contact further by a weekly ‘Google Classroom Hangout’.

Every teacher will host a weekly class catch-up as per the details in the table below.

Please encourage your child to join this as regular contact with their friends and class teacher will help them continue to feel a part of their school community. This will also support with the the safeguarding monitoring we are required to do during this time.

Every Thursday at 10 a.m there will be a class hangout. This will be weekly and always at the same time so I can see you all as I am really missing you! Please do your best to check in with me on these hangouts because it will help me know how you are getting on with your learning.

Look at these superstars! Cailey has been making breakfast for her brothers and Grace has been playing games with her sister! We love seeing what you all get up to as we miss you all so much! Remember to be involved in this weeks video you need to send your pictures in by 4pm Thursday. All you need to do is send us a picture/pictures of things you’ve been up to during lockdown!

Calling all budding artists! J.K. Rowling is inviting you to help illustrate The Ickabog for her. Every day when chapters of the story are uploaded, she will be making suggestions for what you might like to draw or paint to illustrate the story as it goes along. You should let your imagination run wild!

The best bit is, if you are between seven and twelve years old, your parent or guardian on your behalf can enter your drawings or paintings into the official competition being run by J.K. Rowling’s publishers, for a once in a lifetime chance to be featured in The Ickabog book, which is published in November. The competition is now open in the UK!

Details about how to enter, the prize and the terms and conditions are all on the website link below.